Journalism about nonprofit organizations and their impact

Direct Action Everywhere

Why is the FBI looking for a couple of sick pigs? Last summer, FBI agents visited animal sanctuaries in Utah and Colorado, seeking piglets that had been removed from a large-scale hog farm in Milford, Utah, by an animal-rights group called Direct Action Everywhere (DXE). The diseased piglets were rotting to death, says Wayne Hsiung, …

Life is improving for millions of animals in the US. Pigs are being freed from crates, and laying hens are being liberated from their cages. Progress is on the horizon for broiler chickens. Michael Budkie, a lifelong animal-rights activist, is unimpressed. Budkie, the co- founder and executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, a nonprofit …